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SECTION C.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
1, WATER SUPPLY.
The town's water supply is provided by the Metropolitan
Water Board who successfully maintain constant supervision
over the purity and adequacy of the supply.
Well water is used for industrial purposes at certain
factories,but is not used as a domestic supply, all the houses
in the town being provided with a main water supply0
2. DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE.
The sewage from the Borough gravitates to the Corporation
Pumping Station and is then pumped to the Hogsmill Valley Joint
Sewerage Board's Works for treatment.
3o RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The River Thames forms the Western Boundary of the Borough
and is Tinder the control of the Thames Conservancy Board. The
Hogsmill River. a tributary of the Thames, flows through the
Borough.
The Works of the Hogsmill Valley Joint Sewerage Board have
been completed and the plant is now in full operation, These
Works receive the sewage from the Boroughs of Epsom & Ewell,
Maiden & Coombe, Surbiton and Kingston~upon~Thames and the
effluents, together with storm water overflowsp is discharged
into the Hogsmill River. In consequence its flow is increased.
4. CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
All closets in connection with dwelling houses in the Borough
are on the water carriage system.
5. PUBLIC CLEANSING.
The Borough Surveyor is responsible for the collection and
disposal of house and trade refuse. Disposal is still carried out
by tipping into a worked out gravel pit provided by the haulage
contractor.
The refuse from this Borough, Surbiton and Maiden is transferred
to large capacity road vehicles and transported to the tip by the
contractor. The refuse is now weighed on a weighbridge and
36,814 tons of refuse have been sent from this Borough in 1958„
The Corporation's refuse destructor has not operated since
1st March 1951.
6. SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
The following is a tabulated list of visits and inspections
made by the Public Health Inspectors which totalled 8,095 as
compared with 10,450 for 1957. The lower figure for the current
year is accounted for by the long periods when the staffing of the
department was below establishment due to the vacancies.